Is looking for work like dating?

You know or at least most of the time when you're wasting your time in the pursuit of somebody and when its time to give up the ghost. Although there are some schools of thought that insist persistence is the key and will win you the job or the girl.

Its rare in life that is exasperation that anybody would ask another person 'Am I wasting my time here?'. I don't think I've ever done it either although I've felt like asking many times.

You can gild the lily and elaborate upon what you have or what you present to try and get what you want. Ultimately it might just come down to personality or is still ability?

Its probably not just one thing that decides such things but I gotta know 'Am I wasting my time here?.

Finding your place

"A normal man? For me, a normal man is one who turns his head to see a beautiful woman's bottom. The point is not just to turn your head. There are five or six reasons. And he is glad to find people who are like him, his equals. That's why he likes crowded beaches, football, the bar downtown..."

from 'Il Conformista' (1970)


For a little too long now I have felt little more than an observer from afar of life and detached from it all.

I think everybody wants to be SOMEBODY to somebody at times with a head full of doubts I feel like a nobody. A father is a SOMEBODY to his children, a WIFE is SOMEBODY to her husband, an employee is SOMEBODY to an EMPLOYER. What is my role or how can I become more of a SOMEBODY.

Perhaps there is an element of naivete in my viewpoint or romanticism?

What do you think?